The Power Of The Female

Johe Fowles is a special being in the English novel history,his status transformed from "The Popular Novelist" to "The King without Crown". At the beginning,the value of his novels was not highly valued, but as time goes on, the study of his works has become a very important learning. Fowles put "Freedom" pursuing as his responsibility, and practiced this ideal in the process of writing. Therefore, this article will take the freedom theme in his novels of the early phase as the study object, combining the descriptions of the relationship between the male and the female characters of his novels, to analyze his three important novels:The Collector, The Magus, and The French Lieutenant s Woman.The Introduction is mainly about Fowles'works and his achievements, then considers the "Freedom" as an significant theme in the studies of Fowles. The three novels can represent his ideas about freedom in three aspects, and the relations between the man and the female characters throughout the three texts, from which we can know the complexity of his novels.The first chapter will mainly discuss about The Collector, and reveal the personal freedom theme through the confrontational relationship between the hero and the heroine of the novel. Miranda, the heroine, was imprisoned to death by the hero, Clerk.Though the freedom of the female was been deprived, she shouted out desire of freedom in her diary, which let us understand the freedom of the heart can never been "collected". Meanwhile, as the killer of Miranda, Clerk was the real prisoner of himself. However, the author finds out that the confrontation is just the method of the writer to present the dilemma of freedom, the tragic form of the story is to explain the value of freedom. Behind the confrontation, there lies the way to resolve the problem, that is the harmonious relationship between the two sexes. Only in this way can we truly liberate the Women and the Men, and obtain personal freedom of heart and actions.The second chapter will study basically around The Magus, from the social background of the hero Nicholas, and his cognition to the world, Fowles'freedom theme already expands to the social and world depth. Nicholas strongly felt the losting of balance of the voice between the male and the female. He suffered from the "Nemo", and was disappointed at the era,so he revolted against it, which can all be seen from his attitude to the female. Conchis's Godgame was a totally different world from the real one, in which the female became the leading roles, and Nicholas turned into a fool played by them. After the baptism of the Godgame, Nicholas got a new view of the world, and would continue to explore the meaning of freedom and get more growth.The third chapter will mainly analyze Fowles'master piece of work The French Lieutenant's Woman.Fowles successfully shaped a female,Sarah, who catered for the male's cultural discourse on her own initiative, married with "Shame", melting holy virgin/slut, virgin/prostitutes, Maria/Eve as a whole in her identity, finally broke the ego of the male's thought, and obtained the harmony with the characters in the story, the narrator and the writer. Female works as the inspiration during the process of Fowles's creation. The interweave and collision between two genders make Fowles advocate to write in hazard. His clear opinion with "God", novelist's another identity, let him become a "Magus" who can use various artistries skillfully. The success of his novels in turn gives him a firm faith with novel, believing that this kind of art can cast the enlightenment on readers.The epilogue will primarily emphasize the obvious continuity of the heroes and the heroines among the three Fowles'early novels,as well as Fowles'freedom theme. As researchers, we should study him and his works with general vision.